Sherlock Holmes Season Exhibition

Fancy a fix of fashion, photography and Sherlock Holmes? Who doesn’t! Head to the Museum of London’s latest exhibition

This autumn sees the Museum of London host a major Sherlock Holmes season (our favourite kind of season), featuring an exciting new fashion photography exhibition. The series, entitled ‘He wasn’t an easy gentleman to describe’ takes its inspiration from Conan Doyle’s widely loved ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’.

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The images show a mysterious man wearing a variety of guises by designers including Vivienne Westwood and Craig Green, as well as recent fashion graduates. While the deerstalker hats and pipes are nowhere to be seen (and we can’t quite imagine Holmes donning flared tie-dye culottes), photographer Kasia Wozniak’s images instead take their starting point from quotes found in the 19th century stories.

Descriptions of the appearance of men the detective encounters are reinterpreted with 2014 fashion and captured on Wozniak’s large format camera dating from the early 1900s. She uses the wet plate collodion process, which is what gives the photographs their distinctive eerie atmosphere and which dates from the mid-nineteenth century.

This captivating combination of contemporary fashion and early photographic processes is one of the many reasons to head to this exciting new exhibition!

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